Lesbian couple hopes to sway Virginia legislators
Lesbians Terry Hayes and Freda Routt traveled to the capital from their home in Chesapeake to help defuse what they consider a politically explosive election-year issue. As a House panel began hearings on "legal threats to traditional marriage," this couple of six years' partnership arrived to tell what they believe to be their unthreatening story - and head off a proposed constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage. The woman are daughters of military families. Routt works for the Coast Guard, and Hayes has retired from her job as a special-education teacher. "We might look different on the outside," said Hayes, 45. "But on the inside, we're just the same as any other family."
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